My current research focuses on the intersection between aesthetics and semantics. Lately, I have been focused on the semantics of how we talk about aesthetic judgments and experiences. Much of my work proceeds from common intuitions about everyday cases and seeks to unify our formal explanations for common and complex goings-on in aesthetics.  

I am currently in the middle of a large, truncated project about Fourth Wall Breaking fiction. Ultimately, these projects will (hopefully!) comprise my Ph.D. dissertation. In that project, I hope to answer a few, related questions about fourth wall breaks in the process: 

(a) what fourth wall breaks are, as a phenomenon, 

(b) aesthetic challenges to accommodating fourth wall breaks in our accounts of truth in fiction, 

(c) whether fourth wall breaks generate impossible fictions, and 

(d) how we can have a consistent account of the metaphysics of fourth wall breaks, if at all. 

I welcome any thoughts or comments on my work below. I've indicated which projects are in draft form below, feel free to send me an email requesting a draft if you'd like to see what I've got going on.